Respiration

Ayesha Vemuri (author)

Hannah Tollefson (author)

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Title	Respiration
Contributor	Ayesha Vemuri (author)
Contributor	Hannah Tollefson (author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.53288/0404.1.06
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/solarities-elemental-encounters-and-refractions/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Ayesha Vemuri, Hannah Tollefson
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2023-11-22
Long abstract	This chapter thinks with respiration as an elemental process of chemical exchange engendered by solarity in forest ecosystems. While photosynthesis converts sunlight into usable energy through carbon capture, respiration is the process of release and decay that makes these ecosystems sites of symbiosis. Attuned to solarity, we follow stories of how such energy conditions and moves through various forms of life and death in our heliocentric universe. Learning from the unstable and mutually beneficial relationships that characterize actually existing forests, we scrutinize the chemical, social, and analogical meanings of solar-inflected respiration. As key mediators of sunlight and carbon, trees are often valued for the services they provide as so-called “planetary lungs” and carbon sinks in times of climate crisis. Interrogating the promises and perils of such utilitarian conceptualizations of the natural world, we consider the ways in which these co-called lungs are unevenly valued and cared for. With compromised conditions of livability across more-than-human social worlds shaped by colonial capitalism and ongoing histories of imperialism, we look to the ways that Indigenous, Black and other marginalized knowledge keepers engage with the notion of respiration in seeking a more just distribution of planetary breathability.
Page range	pp. 71–84
Print length	14 pages
Language	English (Original)
Keywords	photosynthesis analogy carbon exchange symbiosis

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Ayesha Vemuri

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PhD candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University

Ayesha Vemuri is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University. Her doctoral research lies at the intersection of climate change, migration, infrastructure, and feminist STS. She is interested in the ways in which experts construct and manage the risk of floods and migration in the context of climate change in Assam, India. Her research examines how the management of the river, and its annual floods intersects with other key industries in Assam, including oil and natural gas, sand mining and construction, conservation, and border management.

Hannah Tollefson

(author)

PhD candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University

Hannah Tollefson is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University. Informed by enviornmental humanities and media and technology studies, her research examines infrastructure and environment, with a focus on extraction, logistics, and energy. Her doctoral project is a study of how the shores and waters of the Salish Sea surrounding the Port of Vancouver have been constructed, maintained, and contested as a space of circulation.